EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Crecy
A blind man tries to charge a line of English longbowmen.
It ends exactly like you think it does.
Comments (18)
Joe did not, in fact, pronounce Robert d'Artois correctly.
Just realized. The horror fantasy novel "Between Two Fires" by Christopher Buehlman has a main character who fought in this battle on the French side. It's interesting hearing the big picture to his small, fucked up story.
There is French Sharpe,somewhat. Brigadier Gerard series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Been a listener since the first 10 or so episodes, listened all the way through getting my masters and now I'm a history teacher and definitely noticed how high quality the research has gotten.
Tom saying "dusty" 😩😩😩😥
He who wields the soundboard, rules the world
Joe talks about Total War the way Italian commanders in WW whichever talk about bombing their own men for no reason.
The Warren Ellis graphic novel / comic 'Crecy' is worth a look if you are interested
Ya'll mentioned the two video games I decided to replay out of the blue. Coincidences are wacky.
Funny you should mention John the Blind's horse, and how it reacted to hearing it'd be leading him into battle; there's actually a first hand account. It said, and I quote, "nay"
Get Dr Janega on the pod, she would be great for episodes like this.
PLEASE
Prince Edward was almost certainly not called the black prince until after his death. Unfortunately.
It’s speculated that he had rectal cancer
Another pope hole which is worth considering is all happened while the Avignon papacy existed which eliminated the church as an impartial third party to broker peace as the popes were supporting and supported by the belligerents.
Funny this week’s In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg will be about Crecy
time to piss off more french people with pronounciations (good)
Wow, that's quite an intro line 😯